Transnational ties and performance of immigrant entrepreneurs: the case of IT industry in Italy

Jan Brzozowski, Marco Cucculelli and Aleksander Surdej ()
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Aleksander Surdej: Cracow University of Economics, Department of European Studies

No 98, Mo.Fi.R. Working Papers from Money and Finance Research group (Mo.Fi.R.) - Univ. Politecnica Marche - Dept. Economic and Social Sciences

Abstract: This study contributes to the recent empirical literature on the performance of transnational immigrants' firms by investigating the effect of transnational ties on the firm's growth. In addition to the effect of the ties, the paper shows that home-country's institutional and socio-economic characteristics and country-specific entrepreneurial factors have a crucial role in shaping the ties-performance relationship. The evidence from a sample of immigrantowned firms in the Italian ICT sector in the period 2000-2010 confirmed the relevance of the proposed model and helped in understanding a potential channel of improvements in immigrant firms' performance through transnational ties. Our results show the limited relevance of a direct, or linear, impact of ties on the growth of sales in immigrant-run firms in the ICT sector, whereas supports the crucial moderating role of home country characteristics on the ties-performance relationship.

Keywords: ICT industry; Italy; ethnic business ties; immigrants' firms' performance; transnational entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2014-09
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